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Choking New Delhi smog shutters schools and shrouds Cricket World Cup

CNN — A throat-searing blanket of smog has enveloped New Delhi, forcing schools to shut and disrupting the Cricket World Cup as officials rush to contain a pollution crisis that has become an annual occurrence in the Indian capital. “Sadly, every year when November rolls around there a sense of dread as the air turns …

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Egypt Independent November 7, 2023

Indian and Chinese troops disengaging from disputed border area, New Delhi says

Indian and Chinese troops have begun disengaging from the Gogra-Hotsprings border area in the western Himalayas, the Indian government said Thursday, two years after clashes at the frontier strained diplomatic ties. The statement comes ahead of a meeting in Uzbekistan next week which Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi are expected …

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Egypt Independent September 10, 2022